Jonas Lindqvist
Jonas founded the studio in 2009 and leads its architectural work — with a particular interest in stone, roof forms and the way a building meets the ground.
- Based
- Copenhagen
- With the studio
- Since 2009
- Education
- MArch, Royal Danish Academy
- Teaching
- Guest professor, KADK
- Languages
- Danish, English, German
- Focus
- Houses, civic & cultural
Jonas grew up in Gothenburg, in a family of builders and boat restorers, and trained as an architect in Copenhagen. He worked for six years in the offices of Lundgaard & Tranberg and Sergison Bates before founding NORR ATELIER in 2009, at thirty-one.
His work is recognisable for its calm massing and precise junctions — a preoccupation with how a roof lands on a wall, how a stair meets a floor, how a window sits in thick stone. He is a patient client of contractors and a stubborn defender of the 1:20 detail.
Outside the studio he sails a small wooden boat on the Øresund, badly, and collects Swedish vernacular building manuals from the nineteenth century.
- Private houses and retreats
- Civic and cultural buildings
- Stone and low-carbon construction
- Early-stage feasibility and strategy
A building should be able to be described in one sentence. If it takes two, we have not finished drawing.jonas@norr-atelier.com
Projects with Jonas.
Three projects where Jonas led the design — from a hillside house in Mallorca to a timber home outside Oslo.
